Hugo Chavez’s explanation of the circumstances of the attack on the Tifereth Israel synagogue in Caracas hasn’t impressed everybody.

Writes Caracas Gringo:

President Chavez wants the country to believe that a rogue Metropolitan Police corporal who allegedly worked four years as the Rabbi’s security escort organized over a dozen cops from three police agencies and civilian professional criminals to break into a synagogue and steal…only two used computers worth, at most, Bs.F. 2,000 – less than $500 at the black market exchange rate?

Let’s see, $500 split 15 ways is $33.33 for each of the attackers. Street urchins juggling lemons at traffic intersections can earn that much on a good day.

And President Chavez wants the country to believe that a professional cop, who supposedly knows a thing or two about crime and reportedly had detailed knowledge of the Synagogue’s interior layout, would enlist 14 other people as allies (and certain squealers) in a heist the cop could have pulled off by himself or with one associate to provide some backup?

The official version falls of its own weight.

Daniel Duquenal offers further insight:

Whomever ordered the attack wanted to make sure the congregation’s Torah would be desecrated and that the safes would be broken into to obtain all the necessary lists of the Jewish community in Caracas, from their personal addresses to whatever they were giving to the temple or the diverse charities sponsored by the very active CAIV (Confederation of Israelite Associations of Venezuela). This takes place just as Chavez as thrown his lot behind Hamas, to the point of breaking relations with Israel completely, one of the rare countries to do so.